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HOSE CLAMP. APPLICATION FILED `NOV= I2, -I92I.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

cLIrronD lSMITH cook AND OLEVE AL'ioN COOK, or lsAND LAKE, MICHIGAN.

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Specification ofLetters'Patent.

Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

Application filed November 12, 1921. Serial No. 514,602.

T o all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, CLIFFORD SMITH Cook and CLnvn ALTON COOK, citizens of the United States, residing at Sand Lake, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hose Clamps, of which the following is a specification.

' Cur invention relates to improvements in appliances for securing flexible rubber hose to a standpipe, or other supporting element, and its object is to provide a means whereby a hose of any size or degree of resistance may be securely and safely clamped upon a corresponding standpipe, heavy gas pipe or other supporting element through which waterlis to be delivered into and through the hose.

I/Ve attain this object by the mechanism, and construction of' parts shown in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a transverse sectional view of a supporting stand pipe, or gas pipe and a hose thereon, with our clamping device in place around the hose. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same showing a short length of the hose and the supporting pipe. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of our clamp head on the line 3-3 of Fig. 6 showing the course of the tie end of our enwrapping cable. Fig.k 4 is a like view upon the line 4 4 of Fig. 6 showing the course of the screw threaded clip on the end of our clamping cable. Fig. 5 is a plan of the clamping or enwrapping cable and its screw threaded tip, and Fig. 6 is a plan of the clamping head detached from the hose and the cable.

Similar reference characters indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

In the accompanying drawing, l represents metal supporting element, as a stand pipe, a large metal pipe, or their equivalent. l 2 represents the hose placed upon the supporting element.

Our invention consists in the use of a very flexible metal cable, 3, which is intended to surround the hose, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, and our device for firmly clamping this cable around the hose consists of a metal clamping head 5. In applying this clamping head one end of the cable is passed upwardly through a hole a to the opening b, and thence across this opening and downwardly through the hole c and out at the end of the clamp, as at d, by which means head 5. The position of these receptacles isV illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. l, and shown in the openings a, b, c and d in Fig. 3, and also indicated in Fig. 6.

The other end of the cable 3 has a metal tip 4 securedly attached to it, as plainly shown in Figs. l, 2 and 5, which said tip is provided with screw threads at its outer end for the reception of the nut 6. When applying this clamp the plain end of the cable is passed through the openings a, b and c, as hereinbefore described, and the cable passed around the hose and the end 4 passed through the opening e, as indicated, and the nut 6 applied, as indicated in Figs. l and 2,k and the cable drawn as closely around the hose as may be necessary. One of the main advantages gained by this clamp is that the bearing of the cable is made uniform upon all points of the hose where the cable bears, and this is greatly assisted by the concave bearing of the clamp head 5, which is made of a proper conc-avity to bear perfectly upon the surface of the hose, as indicated at f in Fig. l.

Another great advantage to be gained by the use lof this clamp is that it may be applied and removed as frequently as desired without materially affecting the efiiciency of the clamp, and it may be so firmly drawn into place with the nut 6 as to absolutely obviateany possibility of leakage between the surfaces of the supporting pipe and the hose, no matter what pressure may be necessary to overcome, a thing impossible without the use of a fiexible clamping element, and means whereby said clamping element may be drawn very rigidly in lace.

I-Iaving thus fully describe our invention, what we claim as new in the art, is:

l. In a hose clamp, a clamping head having a hole formed upwardly, thence an opening across a segment of its periphery, thence a hole formed downwardly, thence a hole formed at an angle and opening at one end of the head, and having a second hole formed diagonally through the head a short distance back of the first named holes, a flexible cable having one end threaded through the first named holes, a metallic tip securely connected with the other end of the cable, said tip screw threaded and passed through the second named hole, and a nut thereon for securely binding the cable around a hose.

the yend of the cable is very firmly setinthe i y 2. In Combination Withl a horse andL v:those supporting pipe, a clamp head having one"V point of its periphery eoncv'ed to' Cortespond with the eonvexity of the hose,said 5 head having irregular holes and loe'ing' formed through and in it near oneend, Aand a diagonal hole through it near the other end, a flexible oablehaving one end threaded through the first named holes, a metallic tip 10 upon one end of said cable and screw threaded, the cable "avrzuiged to r pese ai'ond the vhose and pase the screw threaded tip through oLiFFoRD SMITH oooK. CLEVE ALToN oooK. Y 

